Lillian Gordis: French Connection
Harpsichordist Lillian Gordis directs a programme of French/German music from the 18th century.
About Lillian Gordis: French Connection
| 30th January 2026 | |
| 7.30pm | |
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Greyfriars Kirk 1 Greyfriars, Edinburgh Old Town EH1 2QQ |
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| £30 - £6 | |
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Jean-Philippe Rameau is most famous now as a composer of grand operas, full of myth and phalanxes of woodwind, but in 1741 he published a remarkable collection of pieces with tantalising titles—not only pen-portraits of his fellow musicians like Forqueray and Boucon but also more general character studies of La Timide and L’Indifférente.
JS Bach’s Musical Offering has its own remarkable backstory, a collection composed for Frederick the Great of Prussia on a dastardly theme from the King himself. Fittingly for a flute-playing, Francophile monarch, this programme is filled with music that revels in crossing the border.
Jean-Philippe Rameau Premier concert, Pièces de clavecin en concerts
Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre Trio Sonata in B flat major
Johann Sebastian Bach Trio Sonata from The Musical Offering, BWV 1079
Johann Sebastian Bach Trio Sonata in C major, BWV 529
Georg Philipp Telemann Paris Quartet, TWV 43:G1
Jean-Philippe Rameau Cinquième concert, Pièces de clavecin en concerts
Matthew Truscott violin
Katy Bircher flute
Jonathan Manson viola da gamba
Lilian Gordis harpsichord
Pre-concert talk at 6.30pm
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Presented by Dunedin Consort
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